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Recent progress in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has enabled promising applications in medical tasks, such as report generation and visual question answering. However, existing benchmarks focus mainly on the final diagnostic answer,…

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Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a medical imaging modality that is used to infer a large number of abnormalities. While it is hard to define an exhaustive list of these abnormalities, which may co-occur on a chest X-ray, few of them are quite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Arsh Verma

In this work we present a method for the detection of radiological findings, their location and differential diagnoses from chest x-rays. Unlike prior works that focus on the detection of few pathologies, we use a hierarchical taxonomy…

Deep learning has shown recent success in classifying anomalies in chest x-rays, but datasets are still small compared to natural image datasets. Supervision of abnormality localization has been shown to improve trained models, partially…

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic modalities in clinical practice, encompassing a broad spectrum of diagnostic tasks. Recent advancements have seen the extensive application of reasoning-based multimodal…

Machine learning, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has shown promise in medical image analysis, especially for thoracic disease detection using chest X-ray images. In this study, we evaluate various CNN architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tejas Mirthipati

Natural language explanations in visual question answering (VQA-NLE) aim to make black-box models more transparent by elucidating their decision-making processes. However, we find that existing VQA-NLE systems can produce inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yahsin Yeh , Yilun Wu , Bokai Ruan , Honghan Shuai

The opaque nature of deep learning models remains a significant barrier to their clinical adoption in medical imaging. This paper presents a multimodal explainability framework that bridges the gap between convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Valery Nguezet , Elie Tagne Fute , Yusuf Brima , Benoit Martin Azanguezet , Marcellin Atemkeng

The widely used ChestX-ray14 dataset addresses an important medical image classification problem and has the following caveats: 1) many lung pathologies are visually similar, 2) a variant of diseases including lung cancer, tuberculosis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zongyuan Ge , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Suman Sedai , Rahil Garnavi , Rajib Chakravorty

Reading and interpreting chest X-ray images is one of the most radiologist's routines. However, it still can be challenging, even for the most experienced ones. Therefore, we proposed a multi-model deep learning-based automated chest X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Arief Purnama Muharram , Hollyana Puteri Haryono , Abassi Haji Juma , Ira Puspasari , Nugraha Priya Utama

The astounding success made by artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and other fields proves that AI can achieve human-like performance. However, success always comes with challenges. Deep learning algorithms are data-dependent and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Johann Li , Guangming Zhu , Cong Hua , Mingtao Feng , BasheerBennamoun , Ping Li , Xiaoyuan Lu , Juan Song , Peiyi Shen , Xu Xu , Lin Mei , Liang Zhang , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun

Chest x-rays are the most common radiology studies for diagnosing lung and heart disease. Hence, a system for automated pre-reporting of pathologic findings on chest x-rays would greatly enhance radiologists' productivity. To this end, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Adora M. DSouza , Anas Z. Abidin , Axel Wismüller

The chest X-ray is one of the most commonly accessible radiological examinations for screening and diagnosis of many lung diseases. A tremendous number of X-ray imaging studies accompanied by radiological reports are accumulated and stored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Xiaosong Wang , Yifan Peng , Le Lu , Zhiyong Lu , Mohammadhadi Bagheri , Ronald M. Summers

Every year physicians face an increasing demand of image-based diagnosis from patients, a problem that can be addressed with recent artificial intelligence methods. In this context, we survey works in the area of automatic report generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pablo Messina , Pablo Pino , Denis Parra , Alvaro Soto , Cecilia Besa , Sergio Uribe , Marcelo andía , Cristian Tejos , Claudia Prieto , Daniel Capurro

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and morbidity worldwide. Many studies have shown machine learning models to be effective at detecting lung nodules from chest X-ray images. However, these techniques have yet to be embraced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Michael J. Horry , Subrata Chakraborty , Biswajeet Pradhan , Manoranjan Paul , Douglas P. S. Gomes , Anwaar Ul-Haq

Natural language explanations (NLEs) are commonly used to provide plausible free-text explanations of a model's reasoning about its predictions. However, recent work has questioned their faithfulness, as they may not accurately reflect the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shuzhou Yuan , Jingyi Sun , Ran Zhang , Michael Färber , Steffen Eger , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

Classifying chest radiographs is a time-consuming and challenging task, even for experienced radiologists. This provides an area for improvement due to the difficulty in precisely distinguishing between conditions such as pleural effusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maria Efimovich , Jayden Lim , Vedant Mehta , Ethan Poon

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The multiple chest x-ray datasets released in the last years have ground-truth labels intended for different computer vision tasks, suggesting that performance in automated chest-xray interpretation might improve…